note from teacher

One time the little girl was in her classroom at school...she was very sad inside,  very hurt inside, very scared inside.  

She approached her teacher and told her that her "dad" had died in a motorcycle crash............

The teacher was horrified and wrote a quick note for me to give to my mother.   It was written in cursive so the little girl could not read it.

When she got home, mom was sitting at the table feeding the brother.   She handed the note to her mom and went to her room, to put her school stuff away.

Later that night, when the dad got home, the mom handed him the teachers note to read.  The note said something along the lines of "I am so sorry to hear of your husbands death.  Please let me know if there is anything I can do."  The silence in the house at that moment was deafening.  The dad tore the note up into a thousand pieces and took the little girl into the bedroom and beat the living shit out of her.....he beat her so bad, she could not even go to school the next day...

During the beating he screamed "you want me dead?" "you are a little liar.." "you are ...(fill in the blanks) and he beat her within an inch of her life with his belt, leaving welts and bruises everywhere...even her face...

In that little girls mind, she was screaming for help when she told her teacher that....she was screaming for help when she exposed her bruised arms at vacation bible school...she screamed and screamed and NO ONE HEARD, NO ONE HELPED, NO ONE CARED, NO ONE EVEN NOTICED.  

She was invisible.

S